Time hasn't quite yet ripped her to shreds, but give it time.......Which is more poignant: a bombshell gone to fat, a bombshell who dies young,, or a bombshell that keeps hanging in there..........She was the visual representation of what she sang. Fred Astaire could put on the ritz, and she could demonstrate the rapture of being cool.

Her leg pose is refreshing. Standing on left foot, right foot pulled back a bit and pointed - it's actually a slimming, fetching, feminine pose. I really prefer this pose to the I-have-to-pee pose that 98.3% of women in Hollywood now believe is attractive, and adopt.

Ted Bundy's buddy was always old. She started late, dressed ugly and her singing style was, well I don't remember it at all. I am older than she is and when Blondie suddenly appeared, I thought to myself, " Bleached Blondie, why can't you use your own name?" Cher, she is not.

Why are we required to endure Tom & Lorenzo? The comments over there are enough to induce vomiting.

We saw a great one-man show, "Desperately Seeking the Exit". It was performed by a guy who had written a major musical with the plot of "Desperately Seeking Susan" to a Blondie soundtrack. He got it produced and Debbie Harris was involved and supported it and when it opened.....a huge flop. A funny look at how things can go so wrong.

I thought it was weird when "Blondie" was described as "punk" on "Project Runway," and then I read somewhere that "New Wave" was a deliberate marketing ploy on some label's part to sell a more palatable vision of "punk" than was getting associated with, to name the obvious example, "The Sex Pistols."

At roughly the same time this "Project Runway" episode aired, there was a series on VH1, "Bands Reunited," in which a lot of actual (and possibly even illegal) detective work tracked down members of popular groups from decades gone by to convince them to reunite for at least one special show for a couple of hundred or so fans. One such group was "Berlin." It broke my heart when they tracked down John Crawford, and he said "Who wants to see a fat, middle-aged father sing?" But they did it, and I'll never forget keyboardist David Diamond walking up to a synthesizer and saying "OK, let's see if I can get that New Wave sound again." When they performed "The Metro," Terri Nunn turned to directly face John Crawford to sing the "Sorrrrrrry...." lyric. It was pretty special.

I saw "Blondie" at the House of Blues in Myrtle Beach in probably 1999, co-incident with the "Maria" new single. Great show! Hard to believe it was 17 years ago and that even then they had been off the scene for years. Harry was obviously no sweet young thing at the time, but was bopping all over the stage and hitting all the notes dead on.

It's too bad she started her solo stint with the ill-judged "KooKoo" (she has always been way too fascinated with rap), the failure of which tanked the excellent folowups "Rockbird" & "Def Dumb & Blonde"

Annie, I think you will look much better at 71, someday, and you sure as hell dress far better. Her outfit is substandard. And I was a fan of one of her songs. Memories of the punky middle school days. Capri pants are fine on ladies for afternoon beach wear, or long afternoon walks, but evening attire ? Good heavens.

Further random thoughts about Debbie Harry: she looks way too good to have led a truly sinful life. Can it have all been a sham--that bride of Satan, come dance with the damned veneer. Perhaps she ate organic vegetables, went to the gymn regularly, and only slept with honorable men in the context of a stable relationship. There's so much hypocrisy in show biz. Doris Day wasn't quite that virginal and Debbie Harry probably wasn't quite that wicked........Her movie career wasn't commensurate with her good looks. She should have been a bigger star in Hollywood.........It does seem that wholesome works better than wicked on the screen. Doris Day and Julie Andrews prospered where Debbie Harry and Madonna withered.

Everyone is the age they are. There's zero choice. Why then do we interpret the person's self -presentation as a statement about the age they happen to be?

I think, especially as you get older, if you are still healthy, age is just this boring fact over there that you don't have a very strong relationship to. You feel like yourself, the self you have always been, not some generality having to do with other people.

My German grandfather and grandfather were always old. They were born in 1883 and turned 80 when I was 14. They looked old and acted old. They saw a lot in their lives. They told me about a "world lit only by fire" where there were no automobiles and no airplanes; no running water and no electric lights. When they were kids it was still dangerous to travel through parts of the West because of the wild Indians, even after the Custer battle. Grosspa borrowed a couple thousand dollars from the owner of the local general store in Aurora, Illinois (another German, of course, and a member of grosspa's German-speaking Missouri Synod Lutheran Church) and used it to build a house with a hand pump down in the basement -- a very modern convenience at the time. I played with that pump when I was a child and thought it quite a novelty.Grosspa paid back the full amount two years later, on time with interest, and the general store owner was disappointed because he want to foreclose on the house and take it for himself. "By gar, Al, I didn't tink [sic] you wuz goin' to come up with da monee, I taut I wuz goin to get dat dare haus of yours!" Grosspa and grossma lived to see a men walk on the moon, just think of that. They looked and acted old but I don't know if they felt old or if they just felt normal. They didn't tell me. They were Germans and they didn't talk about such things.

Pedal pushers, capri pants, are possibly the most ugly pants available. Not only do they look stupid, they make about 99% of women look fat or skinny. Only a tiny fraction of female legs look healthy in capri pants.

Wearing high heels with capri pants only accentuates the idiotic appearance, and yells "White trash."

This combination is another trick foisted on American women by clothing designers, who most likely sit around and joke about who has convinced females to wear the most unattractive clothing.

William: It does seem that wholesome works better than wicked on the screen. Doris Day and Julie Andrews prospered where Debbie Harry and Madonna withered.

American has an ongoing Madonna—Whore Complex, which Hollywood amplifies. Just consider all the kerfuffle when Apple's iPhone storage was hacked and those nude photos of celebrities got leaked. Whose was the most passed-around? Wholesome Jennifer Lawrence's. Because, surprise surprise, America's Current Sweetheart apparently likes sex enough to send nude selfies to someone. The horror!

I think Debbie is awesome. To the dumb dumb who said something about Debbie's black pedicure....Hello, that is cool. You are the fart. Go fart. Debbie looks great.

Listen to Blondie all the time. Autoamerican album was genius. My father, who is 90 and only likes big band music ("do your hear that? Krupa has melody in his drumming. He's not just keeping time for the band.") liked Blondie and Pink Floyd. : ) Very strange. He otherwise always called rock garbage. Gave me my first set of headphones at 11 when instead of my usual Olivia Newton-John, I brought home A/DC's Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap. Still love that song. Still love Olivia, the only famous person I wrote to as a child and invited to tea or supper besides Wonder Woman.

Paul Snively, if you have a link to that Berlin performance, that would be great. Thanks!

I am a big fan of Debbie, I even bought her solo CDs, and have seen her and with Blondie in concert many times. She was scheduled for performance at a small local brew pub here back in the late 80s, and I brought a dozen roses to give to her. The show was cancelled because of a hurricane that disrupted air traffic, and I sold the roses to a bouncer who had a fight with his girlfriend

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I reunited with my first high school girlfriend a few years ago after 32 years. She asked me recently if I thought she looked old and fat, and I told her "You've been given a great gift. You will always be the 15 year old girl that I fell in love with."